Improvement in whip-sockets



UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE.

WILLIAM HUGHES AND OSEPH K. ALEXANDER, OF MINERVA, OHIO.

IMPROVEME NT IN WHIP-SOCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,859, dated February22, 1876; application filed January 29, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM HUGHES and JOSEPH. K. ALEXANDER, of Minerva, in the county of Stark and State ofOhio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Whip-Sockets, ofwhich the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a side view otour improved whipsocket, partly in section, toshow the construction. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, takenthrough the line mm, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved whipsocket whichshall be so constructed as to enable the whip to be locked in it whendesired, and which shall be simple in a construction and convenient inuse.

-The invention consists in the combination of a coiled spring "and alock with a whipsocket made in two parts, turning upon each other, ashereinafter fully described.

A is the lower or main part of the socket, the upper end of which israbbeted upon the outer side to receive the lower end of the upper partB. Within the socket "A B is placed a spiral spring, 0, which makes oneor more turns around the inner surface of the said socket. One end ofthe spring 0 is attached to the lower part A of the socket, and itsother end is attached to the upper part B, so that by turning the upperpart B in the direction to coil the'spring O, the said spring 0 the whipand prevent it from the socket.

To one side of the socket A is attached a case, D, in which is placed abolt, E, held forward by a spring, F. The end of the bolt E passes intoa hole of a circle of holes in the upper part B of the socket A'B. Oneside of the engaging'end of the bolt E is beveled off, as shown in Fig.2, so that when the part B ofthe socket is turned in the direction tocoil the spring 0 the said part will push back and slip'past the end ofthe bolt, which bolt will again spring into a hole of said part B andlock it in position.

With'this construction the part B cannot be turned back to uncoil thespring and release the whip without first drawing back the bolt E'with akey inserted through a key-hole in the case D. Having thus described ourinvention, we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Thecombination of a coiled spring, U, and a lock, D E F, with a whip-socketmade in two parts, turning upon each other, substantially as hereinshown and described.

WILLIAM HUGHES, JOSEPH K. ALEXANDER.

Witnesses: GEO. P. DAVIS, A. F. HOSTETTER.

from being withdrawn will be drawn together to grasp the handle of

